Goodmornig i’m new on cachyos, my GPU is nvidia rtx 1660 super. CachyOS has installed nvdia-open driver but i know is better nvidia driver (nvidia-open are better for newer GPU). Can i change driver? The Kernel installed is lts.

[image] axenx: Can i change driver? The Kernel installed is lts. Yes, but your on the better driver in most case’s. But to do the change: LTS kernel: paru -S linux-cachyos-lts-nvidia Non LTS or kernel 6.18 linux-cachyos-nvidia Reboot to the newly installed driver. Good Luck and Welcome…

I have to install only paru -S linux-cachyos-lts-nvidia Right? And remove the open driver? Many thanks

❯ paru -S linux-cachyos-lts-nvidia :: Risoluzione delle dipendenze in corso... errore: impossibile trovare tutti i pacchetti necessari: linux-cachyos-lts-nvidia (target) ~ ❯ can't find the package

[image] axenx: linux-cachyos-lts-nvidia I guess the package is part of the broader shift by CachyOS and NVIDIA to use open-source kernel modules, particularly for newer GPU architectures. I can’t even find the nvidia-dkms-590 package any longer. :frowning: I have seen some post cryptic mess…

For what it’s worth, Nvidia recommends the open driver for 16 series (Turing) cards: [image] NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA... With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and M…

New Installation will have automatically the suggested driver. No need to do anything

New install and Nvidia driver

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zymotek January 9, 2026, 3:03pm 7

For what it’s worth, Nvidia recommends the open driver for 16 series (Turing) cards:

And so do Cachy maintainers:

And so does Arch wiki: